Comment & Opinion

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Could there be a better metaphor for the plight of the out-of-power Democratic Party than the fact that it's now a week into debati...

As Silicon Valley pours hundreds of billions of dollars into an artificial intelligence arms race, a parallel battle is unfolding over something far l...

Pennsylvania has an opportunity to ensure that its broadband networks keep pace with rapid advancements in broadband technology, and with other states...

If President Donald Trump wants the Senate to pass an immigration enforcement package, he’ll have to give up his ill-advised “anti-weaponization” fund...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — From Indiana to Texas, President Donald Trump has been throwing his political weight around, using his clout to end the careers of ...

The health needs of a community can change over time, especially in rural areas. What matters most is making sure people can get care close to home, w...

Fifteen years ago, during the political convulsion known as “Occupy Wall Street,” I wrote a column for the Daily Inter Lake declaring: “Don’t be afrai...

Maine’s largest ski resort has yet to pay back $153,000 in taxpayer money it received years ago to build a dam that never materialized. Franklin Count...

“It was the best of energy policies; it was the worst of energy policies.” — Charles Dickens, "A Tale of Two Cities" (Apocryphal) Higher electricity p...

LOS ANGELES (TNS) — After a decade of Trumpism, it should come as no surprise that President Donald Trump’s ethos (presenting scandal as strength, out...

The Trump administration has made strides in chopping away at the corpulent federal administrative state. Nevertheless, the Competitive Enterprise Ins...

BOSTON (TNS) — Democrats should come up with better cultural icons than aging, washed up multi-millionaire former talk show hosts. Liberal hero Stephe...

As conservatives seek to counter the hard-left turn taken by the Democratic Party, it will not be enough to simply point out the grim failures of Marx...

DALLAS (TNS) — For most moms I know, summer is a mixed bag. It’s not hard to understand why. For mothers without access to flexible or remote work, su...

Most of America’s military budget is spent on weapons and technology, but justifying the value of some other expenditures is a bit harder. The Departm...

I AM a patriot. I truly am. I say the Pledge of Allegiance at every event, I can sing all the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner," I can even recite t...

NEW YORK (TNS) — My Manhattan apartment is about 800 square feet, the same size as my upstairs neighbors’ — except they’re a family of four plus a lar...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — It’s a source of continual frustration for me that, by and large, Pennsylvanians don’t think of our state as unusually blessed with...

Even as the U.S. and Iran wrestle over an agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, surging gas prices have turned the government’s attention to a per...

NEW YORK (TNS) — President Donald Trump’s grip on the Republican Party is slipping. Sort of. Because even though the president’s support among GOP vot...